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Roman, late Imperial Period, ca. 4th century CE. A free-blown jar made from translucent, pale-green glass with a concave base and smooth pontil scar, a globular body with a rounded shoulder, a large collared rim with an out-folded lip, and a pair of applied, blue-green trail handles. The lower body is adorned with a register of applied zigzags in a similar color as the handles, and above that is a register of thin spiraling trail decorations. Fine silvery and rainbow-hued iridescence envelops nearly all of this fabulous vessel. Size: 3.5" W x 2.875" H (8.9 cm x 7.3 cm).

For a stylistically-similar example made from yellow-green glass, please see "Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass." Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, 1999, p. 95, fig. 175.

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection

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#139749

Small chips to upper terminals of trail handles, minor nicks to rim, body, and base, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. The smooth pontil scar indicates that the vessel was free-blown and was intentionally smoothed or wore away naturally over time. Nice earthen deposits and great silver and rainbow iridescence throughout.